boost plugin

[cu dao huy]

Dear members,

I am trying to using generalized boost regression model for my data. But I found error in this step as below:

capture program boost_plugin, plugin using("C:\ado\personal\boost.dll")

. After this command I try boost command but found error

file boost_plugin.plugin not found

Herewith my reference

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf...867X0500500304

How can I use boost command? Is there another way to do generalized boost regression in Stata?

p/s: I am using Stata version 15.1 SE

[William Lisowski]

Those are outdated instructions for installing an outdated version of the community contributed boost command, and they rely on your having copied files from the Stata Journal website, which it appears you have not done.

The version available from SSC is the latest readily available. A description and installation instruction is available in the output of

ssc describe boost

[cu dao huy]

Hi William,

Thank you for your response, actually my problems is on the latest version of boost command.

. which boost
c:\ado\plus\b\boost.ado
*! version 1.3.2 May, 2020 Matthias Schonlau

In my adofile path I have these following files:

• basetable.ado
• boost.ado
• boost_predict.ado
• byvar.ado
• boost64.dll
• boost.hlp
• byvar.hlp
• basetable2xlv13.mata
• basetable2xlv14.mata
• boost_linux64.plugin
• boost_mac64.plugin
• boost_win64.plugin
• basetable.sthlp

It still does not work properly

[William Lisowski]

In post #1 you gave the command

capture program boost_plugin, plugin using("C:\ado\personal\boost.dll")

which is outdated and references a file not found in your ADOPATH. Following the guidance in

https://www.stata.com/plugins/#sect6

and experimenting on my macOS system, I believe the syntax you want is

program boost_plugin, plugin using(boost_win64.plugin)

. boost_plugin
command boost_plugin is unrecognized
r(199);

. program boost_plugin, plugin using(boost_mac64.plugin)

. boost_plugin
r(9998);

This installed the plugin, which then failed because of course it was called incorrectly.

[CJ Libassi]

Just wanted to see if anyone ended up solving this. Neither of the following is not working on my Windows 10 machine:

program boost_plugin, plugin using(C:\Users\CJ\ado\plus\b\boost_win64.plugin) 
program boost_plugin, plugin using("boost_win64.plugin"

[Matthias Schonlau]

I wrote the boost command . As suggested by William Lisowski above, please download from ssc.

ssc install boost, replace

This command is no longer needed (and should not be used).

capture program boost_plugin, plugin using("C:\ado\personal\boost.dll")